Broadway/L.A., run by the Nederlander Organization, is moving most of its productions from its former home, the Pantages, to the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills due to Disney’s “Lion King” taking up residence in the Hollywood Boulevard venue.

The Pantages seating capacity of 2,670 is a good 700 seats more than the Wilshire. The Fonda is being configured to allow 250 theatergoers per performance of “Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding.”

Stiff competish

Competition for the theater dollar will be increasingly fierce over the next season as the not-for-profit Ahmanson Theater will offer the straight-from-Broadway “Swing,!” “Contact” and “Flower Drum Song.” In April, new operators of the 1,400-seat Wadsworth Theater in Westwood said they were attempting to bring in theatrical productions as well but have yet to announce shows.

This year, the Shubert has been dark with the exception of a few industrials and a four-week run of “Fosse.” The subscription series guarantees that the lights will be lit for most of the new year.

When the 2,000-seat Shubert opened in July 1972 with a production of “Follies” direct from its Broadway run at the Winter Garden Theater, the Stephen Sondheim musical was part of a subscription series in a season that included “Twigs,” “Butley” and “Grease.”

“We broke away from the subscription series initially,” said Phil Smith, president of the Shubert Organization. ” ‘A Chorus Line’ ran longer than anyone expected. And people did not want to wait 18 months for their next show on the series.”

The 1970s and 1980s produced several long-running musicals that filled the Shubert but made it difficult for the parent org to maintain a subscription series at their Los Angeles venue. In addition to “A Chorus Line,” megahits such as “Evita,” “Annie,” “42nd Street,” “Dreamgirls,” “Cats” and “Les Miserables” ran from one to two years there.

The L.A. venue took on new prestige when Andrew Lloyd Webber held the world premiere of his “Sunset Boulevard” at the Shubert in 1993. Star Glenn Close left the production seven months later, and Lloyd Webber became embroiled in controversy — and a lawsuit — when he shuttered the tuner prematurely instead of continuing its run with a new Norma Desmond, actress Faye Dunaway. In 1997, lightning missed twice when the Livent musical “Ragtime” did not perform up to expectations in its U.S. debut at the theater.